A year ago, members of AdViewGlobal and AdSurfDaily asked Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairmain of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to endorse Ponzi schemes and investigate the prosecutors in the ASD case. This year, members of the failed Gold Nugget Invest (GNI) HYIP are doing most of the early season cheerleading for reprehensible "programs," while sabotaging debate in the ranks and continuing to argue there is something noble about fraud schemes. Fifteen U.S. banks failed while GNI members were singing the praises of the HYIP in the opening days of 2010. GNI tanked earlier this month. Thirteen U.S. banks failed while AVG/ASD members were conducting a letter-writing campaign to Leahy in the opening days of 2009.

The new year is starting out like the year that just passed. Banks are failing, unemployment is high, money is not trickling down to small businesses that need capital to expand and create new jobs — and the Ponzi pimps are still putting lipstick on pigs, pushing autosurfs and HYIPs and cheerleading for them even when they fail.

Gold Nugget Invest (GNI) quickly has become this year’s equivalent of last year’s early season favorite, AdSurfDaily (ASD), among the apologists. As was the case a year ago with ASD, the GNI faithful and delusional members of the failed HYIP have emerged to lead the cheers, make the excuses, confuse the issues, sabotage legitimate discussions and set the stage for even more people to lose tremendous sums of money to practiced online schemers.

Web records suggest that at least 57 percent of funds directed at GNI originated in the United States, and there are claims that GNI had 11,000 members. GNI tanked earlier this month, directly on the heels of an HYIP known as “Cash Tanker,” which used images of Jesus Christ in its marketing materials.

Yes, even an HYIP that called itself Cash Tanker and used a revered figure as though he were just another hamburger salesman on TV was able to collect untold sums from investors by relying on HYIP cheerleaders to spread the gospel of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

First, a brief look at the banking environment.

Five U.S. banks failed Friday, bringing the year-to-date total to 15. That’s ahead of last year’s pace. Through Feb. 14, 2009, 13 U.S. banks had failed. Twenty-five failed in all of 2008, and only three failed in 2007.

By the time the banking bloodletting had ended in 2009, a total of 140 banks had failed. With 15 failures already this year, the United States is on pace to record 180 in 2010. The FDIC insurance fund fell into the red last year under the weight of the failures, and the agency is replenishing the fund by requiring banks to prepay fees for insurance.

A Year Ago

Most notable among the Ponzi pimps a year ago at this time were the promoters of ASD and its offshoot, the AdViewGlobal (AVG) autosurf. They hailed AVG as a cure for what ailed the U.S. economy, even though ASD had been implicated in a wire-fraud, money-laundering, securities fraud and Ponzi scheme that resulted in the federal seizure of tens of millions of dollars.

AdViewGlobal, which tanked in June 2009, formally launched a year ago this week. It was pushed by ASD members who positioned AVG as an “offshore” alternative.

Almost a year ago, the Pro-ASD Surf’s Up forum led a campaign to Sen. Patrick Leahy that sought the Senate’s endorsement of Ponzi schemes — it seems incredible, but it’s true — and also sought to have the Senate investigate the prosecutors and agents who were investigating the alleged ASD Ponzi scheme.

Incredibly, last year’s Surf’s Up campaign, which piggybacked off a campaign by ASD mainstay “Professor” Patrick Moriarty, came to the fore during a time in which 13 U.S. banks were failingÂ in the opening days of the year; the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme ($65 billion) was still a fresh news item; the Tom Petters’ Ponzi scheme ($3.65 billion) was in the news; the alleged Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme ($8 billion) was in the news; the alleged Arthur Nadel Ponzi scheme ($350 million/$400 million) was in the news; the alleged Paul Greenwood/Stephen Walsh financial scheme ($553 million) was in the news; and the alleged Nicholas Cosmo Ponzi scheme ($370 million) was in the news. There were others, of course.

At the same time the events cited in the paragraph above were making fresh news, autosurfs and HYIPs also were falling like dominos and taking investors’ money with them. Notable among them were MegaLido, Noobing, Frogress, Daily Profit Pond, Premium Ads Club and Aggero Investment. All of them were pushed by promoters who also were pushing AVG (and had pushed ASD).

Some of the promoters simultaneously tried to sanitize the “industry” through the letter-writing campaign to Leahy, asserting, for example, that the schemes actually were legitimate opportunities and that the government did not understand the technology or the math behind the schemes.

Despite the headlines of spectacular Ponzi fraud in the mainstream press, despite the fact that it was impossible to miss news about Ponzi schemes unless you lived a life of blissful ignorance or had chosen to be willfully blind, despite the fact that sites such as Scam.com and WorldLawDirect and the PP Blog had published tons of information on autosurf and HYIP Ponzi schemes, despite the fact that the U.S. and other governments had published warnings about the frauds and had filed both civil and criminal cases against the fraudsters, despite the fact that no autosurf or HYIP ever has stood the test of time and survived, the schemers closed ranks and continued to shill and shill and shill and shill.

They’re still shilling a year later.

GNI Becomes The New ASD In Opening Days Of 2010

This year’s early season ASD is GNI. Instead of writing letters to Leahy, though, some of the apologists are saying that the HYIP critics and doubters in the GNI ranks should quit complaining and starting donating money to Haiti earthquake relief. As was the case with ASD, all of the cheerleading is occurring blindly. Not a shred of evidence has emerged that anything about GNI was real.

There are others, of course, and the names constantly change. What hasn’t changed is that the autosurf and HYIP shills continue to shill and shill and shill, even as one bank after another is failing and one Ponzi schemer after another is making one headline after another.

We can’t think of anything that matches the level of disconnect or demonstrates the same level of greed and wanton criminality — not even Rothstein’s Bugatti and collection of other fine automobiles purchased with Ponzi proceeds.

Okay this is too much. Just got hold of the latest email from Robert Spearman of GNI.

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Welcome to GNI Program,

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Before discussing the specifics, we ask you to refrain from discussing this matter over the internet
WITH ANYONE, ANYWHERE not withstanding the instructions outlined below.
If you cannot agree to this condition, you are not permitted to read any further, NO EXCEPTIONS.

All past threads and posts must and will be deleted, whether initiated by me, Todd, Ingenue, Debbie or any former GNI member.
We ask this newsletter not be published anywhere.

That being said, I welcome those of you who have expressed interest, though no guarantees that an offer to participate will be forthcoming, to our vision and pathway to that vision…
Forex-Profit-Share.com

Concept

Forex-Profit-Share.com was born from the needs and wants of the administration,
principals and former GNI clients to create and maintain a system of income generation,
emanating from Sure-Bets (Sports Arbitrage) which is totally private; devoid of those troublesome obstacles
including hackers, enemies or those either unwilling or unable to understand those concepts (and risks)
inherent to the business environment in which we operate.

It was never a secret we sought to create a new program capable of implementation towards the ladder part of
the first quarter (2010). True to our word, we give to you a program that is the culmination of our experience;
trials and tribulations to be sure, worthy of our total commitment to ensure its success.

This program, is in no fashion an extension of, or in any manner, a relationship to the former GNI.
Hence, there will not be any “rolling over” of funds, assets or liabilities from one project to the other.

We fully expect to have all outstanding issues with GNI resolved during the period between the second half
of May, until the end of June at the latest.

Goals of Forex-Profit-Share.com
Our needs were clearly defined by what worked and what didn’t with GNI. Of significance was:

1. The ability to operate legally and in full compliance with Regulatory entities that fight Money Laundering, Terrorist and the exploitation of Children.
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3. Create a project that provided returns commensurate (or better) with the risks associated with this kind of venture, not found anywhere else.
4. Could function utilizing a small but intelligent collection of staff and support; keeping overhead to an absolute minimum; and
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Although these were formidable challenges, we feel we have attained this with Forex-Profit-Share.com

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An investor can also cancel an active investment and prematurely withdraw the principal amount, however, please note that investment cancellation carries a fee of 30% levied on the principal amount.
Following table summarizes the features of each of the investment plans offered by us :

1. Aggresive Fund

Weekly Profit : 7,5 %
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Amount : $50 – $5000

2. Conservative Fund

Weekly Profit : 10,5 %
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3. Fortune Fund

Weekly Profit : 13,5 %
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Some things to remember and answers to some questions:

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My instant take is that the “new” GNI resembles the “old” and now-defunct EMG/Finanzas Forex fraud.

It also looks as though GNI is in with the Arby’s Indians crowd (at least in spirit) with its new loyalty oath and secrecy, etc. I’d say it’s possible that some of the AdViewGlobal players are pulling the strings — or, at a minimum, are the target audience.

Given the collapse of GNI (and at least three other “popular” HYIPs) coincided with the collapse of the Trevor Cook Ponzi scheme, I’ve speculated that Cook had money in these programs. He was, after all, a gambler, especially of other people’s money.

Cook also had an odd sort of natural constituency in Minnesota, which seems to have a disproportionate share of folks who buy into these schemes and push them. You’ll recall, of course, that ASD’s Andy Bowdoin had a loud advocacy group in Minnesota.

I’m just speculating, mind you. But it wouldn’t surprise me if GNI is looking for a cash cow to replace Cook’s lost money, money lost when the Stanford Ponzi scheme collapsed, money lost when the Feds seized ASD’s assets, money lost when the Feds seized EMG’s assets and money lost when AVG went belly up.

It’s also possible that Spanish, British, Swiss and Cypriot authorities are making some headway into starving these scams.

The note you quoted from above is just pure insanity. Anyone who puts a plug nickel into this thing deserves to lose it all and then be prosecuted.

Personally, I believe the Task Force in Florida and the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York are making headway into trying to choke these schemes at the source. The provincial regulators in Canada also appear to be becoming more aggressive.

“Patriots,” “sovereigns” and conspiracy theorists are in no short supply, though. These HYIPs appeal to the antigovernment crowd and political extremists because they’re positioned to validate fractured thinking. The Internet provides the forum through which criminality not only is celebrated, but rewarded.

It must be hard for the FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS, SEC and CFTC, among others, to sleep these days. Never in all of my days have I seen such a relentless attack on the U.S. financial infrastructure. It really is ceaseless and, if the purveyors get knocked off the horse, they simply pretend it never happened and conflate a new reality to cover all contingencies.

There is virtually no way to categorize — let alone even describe — the incongruities.

admin: My instant take is that the â€œnewâ€ GNI resembles the â€œoldâ€ and now-defunct EMG/Finanzas Forex fraud.

I think it resembles any HYIP-ponzi that uses “Forex” in the name. Which would be about 60%-80% of them.

admin: It also looks as though GNI is in with the Arbyâ€™s Indians crowd (at least in spirit) with its new loyalty oath and secrecy, etc.

It’s another ponzi scammers trick. It works two fold: first it give the impression “professionalism” – “only a real company uses Non Disclosure Agreements. Second, it installs an element of fear in the numpties who are daft enough to invest in these schemes. The AdViewGlobal players are definitely the target audience.

admin: Iâ€™m just speculating, mind you. But it wouldnâ€™t surprise me if GNI is looking for a cash cow to replace Cookâ€™s lost money, money lost when the Stanford Ponzi scheme collapsed, money lost when the Feds seized ASDâ€™s assets, money lost when the Feds seized EMGâ€™s assets and money lost when AVG went belly up.

Summer holidays are only a few months away. This scheme could collapse just in time for a trip somewhere nice. I hear Greece might be cheap this year.

admin: I believe the Task Force in Florida and the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York are making headway

It would be nice to think this but I believe real progress will be made when the well known ponzi promoters (Sloan, Russo etc) are held accountable. Also the ponzi payment processors, the ponzi friendly web hosts, and the ponzi promotion forums. And the web hosts of the ponzi friendly forums & payment processors.

admin: It must be hard for the FBI, Secret Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, IRS, SEC and CFTC, among others, to sleep these days. Never in all of my days have I seen such a relentless attack on the U.S. financial infrastructure.

It’s been this way for some time, at least 5 years, probably more. Hopefully the political will is changing so that these schemes will no longer be tolerated.